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The Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 20th Century Fox film loosely based on the story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious British woman who became a missionary in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Directed by Mark Robson, who received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, the film stars Ingrid Bergman as Aylward and Curt ...
June 30, 1953 (Tuesday) The first Chevrolet Corvette was built, at Flint, Michigan, United States. The first roll-on/roll-off ferry crossing of the English Channel took place, from Dover to Boulogne. [69] The final of the 1953 Copa del Generalísimo football competition took place in Madrid, Spain, and was won by Real Madrid FC.
Box office. $2.75 million (US rentals) [2] Soldier of Fortune is a 1955 DeLuxe Color adventure film in CinemaScope about the rescue of an American prisoner in the People's Republic of China in the 1950s. It was directed by Edward Dmytryk, starred Clark Gable and Susan Hayward, and was written by Ernest K. Gann based on his 1954 novel.
IMDB list of Chinese films by year; 100 Greatest Chinese language films chosen by Asia Weekly Magazine; 100 Best Mainland Chinese Films chosen by 88 experts and organised by Time Out Beijing and Time Out Shanghai
In June 1953, Lancaster and Hecht announced they would make two films with United Artists, starting with Apache. [6] [7] The film would be the first in a series of movies Lancaster made for United Artists. [2] It was originally budgeted at $742,000. [8] In July 1953 the producers hired Robert Aldrich as a director. [9]
1953 in various calendars. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1953. 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1953rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 953rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1950s decade.
Farewell My Concubine is a 1993 Chinese-Hong Kong epic historical drama film directed by Chen Kaige, starring Leslie Cheung, Gong Li and Zhang Fengyi.Adapted for the screen by Lu Wei, based on the novel by Lilian Lee, the film is set in the politically tumultuous 20th-century China, from the early days of the Republic of China to the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution.
Proprietary [1] IMDb (an initialism for Internet Movie Database) [2] is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.